skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With absolutely zero domain knowledge and not really familiar with the situation, I've got a strong gut feeling that it's gonna be easy to get burned here.

Hopefully I'm wrong, for all the people involved's stakes.
> Tcl/Tk wasn’t fun

That is exactly the opposite of my experience with Tcl. It is one of the most fun languages I've used. And it's flexibility is without peer excluding other Lisp-y languages. So many fun things you can do.
The author says this in the first paragraph.
How does that compare to Secure Scuttlebutt?
I'm not as sure that Ikea's manufacturing employees are paid a living wage as I am for Lego. Externalities count, all of them.
Value is subjective. Wealth is objective and tangible.
second this, I managed a brief conversation with someone when trying this out and it was great, a few other messages seemed to chime in as well. perf/eff can be improved as mentioned above but would lose the fun, imo
I dont think mathematicians care much about other mathematicians.

The physics department at my uni has a weekly colloquem that attracts physicists in all fields. (e.g. condensed matter, astro, hep-th, etc.)

There is a general chemistry colloquem too but it is in a tiny room and attracts small crowds.

There is nothing like that in the math department, really there are no topics that mathematicans are both working in and broadly interested in.
These companies/practices exist in the US as well, one of the companies you mentioned offered me a 2 year contract with an early termination fee that was 4-5 months salary
There is a weird asymmetry between moving a stocks value up and moving it down. Shorting is weird and sort of dangerous as we're seeing here and doesn't move the price down very directly. By contrast, a group of people can move a price up pretty easily.
revenge is a dish best served cold?

this is a tiny slice of justice from 2008/2009 that Occupy Wallstreet demanded and never got. The fact that they get plucked like a goose by memers on reddit and on their own professional turf is almost poetic.
Then you can go all the way and factor in viewing distance as well, then with the physical dimensions of the medium and the viewing distance you get an actual FOV, which better to be in the same order of magnitude as the FOV of the camera when the picture was taken to look realistic.
Why stay out of a stock that’s fluctuating wildly for reasons unrelated to their performance? One whose price is determined by factors probably not known to most investors?
Yes, if you can't reset the latch, I don't think there is actually any race. I didn't realize that latch had an arrive and wait in fact.
Well, with college you don’t get paid at all for around 4 years of your time, and then graduate in debt or having paid for instruction.

Compare that to this case where you basically commit 2 years of time and emerge debt free, and presumably with real work experience.

I’m not advocating for this sort of system, it creeps me out.

What I am saying though, is that college can be a dicey value if you can’t figure out how to translate it to the job market, if that’s your objective.

We would probably be better off if there was a really good system for apprenticeships that was a win win for employers and employees.

Most grads basically have to be mentored for years to be effective, in my experience. It makes it hard on companies looking to hire, because they have to invest so much in someone who can just leave. And hard for the job-seeker, as they are in a difficult position because they may not be able to offer a lot of value, so may not be able to get a job.

For people with top tier degrees, or who are very motivated self starters, none of this matters. But what about everyone else?
In this case, though, you have hordes of rabid sentiment mongers pooling their ideals to the end of even encouraging apparent minors to put all of their meagre savings into high-risk stocks.

There's something as highly corrupt about that to me as much as anything else at play here.
> the anesthesiologist was distracted by the television

What? The fucking television????
Your story reminded of the time I had a really bad experience attending a Ob-gyn appointment with my wife while she was pregnant with our first. I tried to ask a question and was pointedly ignored, to the point the (female) Dr didn't look at me for the rest of the visit. It was very odd and uncomfortable for me and my wife.

I got the message loud and clear that I was less than zero in the whole process, in that Dr's eyes at least.
https://recordit.co/ZsNd2YLQjy

If you are "TRUSTED BY 4,300+ MARKETERS" and "<200-ish, but changes every refresh> Users Signed Up Today", then you've built a multi-million dollar business in the last 20 days. Congrats...
Igalia are a good example of a worker owned company in the open source space (and they are hiring):

https://www.igalia.com/ https://www.igalia.com/jobs/
Call it Santa Ana's revenge.
IKEA cabinets are usually considered one of the best things they make. Plastic layered MDF works really well for cabinetry for whatever reason.

Even most woodworkers seem to actually recommend Ikea cabinets, even if they despise the rest of their products.
Out of curiosity which products did you buy and what was different about them?

Also, multi million could mean $2m/year which if you pay your employees well would translate to like 25 employees if you make no profits and only pay salaries.

Lastly, having bought loads of stuff from AliExpress and recently from AdaFruit, the latter absolutely has higher quality items. They are not simply reselling what’s available directly from China but are legitimately designing their own boards which are better thought out than the generic parts you can get for cheaper.
Making boomer hedge funds bleed.
Ideally you'd get to talk to people who used to work there, though it's hard to see how that would work.

I know back in olden times I'd always look at the "Help Wanted" ads, and would note that certain companies appeared to have constant employee turnover. I took that as a bad sign.

Probably not as valuable a metric if the company is growing rapidly. Also people tend to job hop a lot more nowadays.
I think Elon just loves messing with the SEC.
Open sets lead very soon to holes, you don't even need continued functions. First you grok that a topological space is disconnected if there are more than two subsets that are open and closed. Then, a subspace has holes if its complement is disconnected.
Reddit and Elon Musk sparked a GameStop stock surge
> because they do not even attempt to sync to the screen refresh rate

I don’t disagree with that, but I think the underlying reason is X server protocol. It’s hard to implement vsync properly when there’s a socket connecting application to display server.

On Windows, various GPU APIs and even parts of the GPU driver are DLLs loaded into the process. DLL functions don’t have latency and API designers don’t need to consider that (except stuff that have good reasons for latency, e.g. asynchronous draw/compute/copy calls). Works quite well in practice, I don’t remember screen tearing issues on Win10 unless I explicitly disable vsync, e.g. with DXGI_PRESENT_ALLOW_TEARING flag. Most apps don’t do that and don’t tear.

The problem statement “implement proper vsync” only looks easy on the surface. If one considers all the hairy details, a good implementation gonna affect many components of the OS, not just GUI related also power management and others. Otherwise it gonna introduce presentation latency (especially bad for online games), consume much more RAM and VRAM, and/or waste too much electricity (especially bad for laptops).

> If you tell the compositor to fuck of by overriding the windows redirect state or have a compositor that at least detects full screen windows

If a developer is in a position to replace OS components, that’s probably an embedded environment. For that case DRM/KMS combo is already flawless, at least according to my experience. That’s not just on Pi4, I’ve developed stuff for a few other ARM SoCs, too.

Desktop software developers can’t replace OS components or ask users to do so. They need something that works out of the box, is reliable and efficient.
Pinecone lands $10M seed for purpose-built machine learning database
Just wondering, how old are you?

I'm 30, so myspace and Facebook showed up only once I was in high school, but everything you describe was still available on the web before social media. Shock sites were huge (goatse, tubgirl, etc), and I remember watching a beheading with a chainsaw by a Mexican cartel. And of course porn was around too.

The difference with social media is the "keeping up with the Joneses" except now it's your entire life, not just your literal neighbor. Way more damaging long term, since you actually know these people and can relate to them. Yeah the beheading was shocking, but I'm not hanging out with cartels regularly. Just a completely different thing.
I recently saw a tweet that for once seemed insightful: "the internet did to boomers what boomers thought it would do to us", presumably posted by someone under the age of 25.

Young people are vulnerable to social media, and your point still stands, but I am also under the impression that it has impacted previous generations to a far greater extent, breaking their link to reality altogether.
Social media provokes behaviours which are unnatural or even impossible in an ordinary "social" setting. On one hand, it is the instant ability to have others react on whatever you may say or post, regardless of the context of what is being expressed. In an ordinary social gathering with people talking, there is a collective subject discourse and you cannot just express your preference for cats in the middle of the conversation. Second, the format is designed to encourage hyper-expression and hyper-reactivity. Personalised likes, notifications, a time-trackable identity linked to your emotional preferences like movies, sports, lifestyle etc.
The short interest is still over 100% and unless they offloaded it into another institutional investor it is simply not possible.
Robinhood frequently goes down during busy trade windows. It's bad enough that I warn people against using them if they intend to do any kind of active trading.
The above comment is sarcasm. Somehow going over people’s heads so downvotes.

Basically, sarcasm rarely seems to work on this site, and I am ambivalent about whether this is a good thing.
What's the biggest mistake you've made on the job, and how did your team/management respond to it?
It is currently trendy to hate on them because of Tesla fanboys. Tesla, in turn, hated them because Musk has been overextended before and probably could have been killed at various points.

Just another example of weirdly flavored hero worship mixed with greed and the American obsession with cars.
Wasn't it hedge funds that actually called the big banks on their bullshit in 2008?

I mean, there were books and even a movie about it.
does the entire team participate in the interview process and make a hire / no hire decision as a team?

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I've heard people at Bloomberg in London complain about this in the past; people have said to me they've found good candidates but because one person on the team said no, it's a no hire, and they ended up hiring someone whose distinguishing feature is "nobody actively disliked them as a candidate".

I guess it's a good thing if nobody has an individual veto; I understand in the case above anyone on the team could individually veto.
A stock price is never just about the fundamentals of the company. It's not rational to think of stock prices only from that limited perspective. You _must_ consider the supply and demand for the stock and the people that are currently trading it. They are a part of the equation.
A protein inherited from Neanderthals protects people from severe Covid-19
Interesting. Does it actually delegate the authentication to your phone, or does it send the password?

My Android allows to share the password with a QR code, which is certainly not as ergonomic... in fact it's slower than spelling it out, even to 1 friend.
Manager: "All those 'nice to have' things are too expensive. Let's cut them"

Manager, 3 months later: "Why are there no nice things in the software!"
Wait till you see what it does to adults!

(Sorry for the short comment but I’m trying out saying a lot with a little)
Samsung is really close (relatively speaking). They did recently announce a major expansion of their Austin, TX facilities as well.
They’re also making more of it because it doesn’t last anywhere near as long as it used to. A chest of drawers made out of oak or good plywood (yes, plywood can be good) used to last a literal lifetime. It also costs a lot more.
Oh, I think you misunderstood, I am fully in agreement with you here, I wasn't proposing a change. I was just answering to a comment to clarify an earlier point.

The specifics I mentioned are not something that I am proposing as a target for a change, because, as you said, this is how their ad business works, and it seems pretty fair.
Yes. It is probably a rare thing, but some companies that I know of actually pay overtime willingly (to a degree) to get more good work done. I think the tradition thoughts that a lot of companies have that overtime is the worst thing. Overtime isn't bad, but you should compensate your people accordingly.
I use cameras practically and can’t quote the theory, but my understanding is as follows:

> That has me wondering if there is some geometry that would give realistic-looking pictures at all distances?

I don’t think so. Compared with wider angle lenses as in phones, camera telephoto lenses produce the compression effect when the nearer and further objects are relatively close to each other compared with their common distance to the camera. If you had three people at 5, 100 and 105 metres away the 5m one would probably be out of focus and look significantly larger than the two at 100 and 105m. A zoom lens allows the degree of compression to be changed, but the image changes as you zoom.

> Another issue that I am wondering about comes from the fact that telescopes (and, I am assuming, telescopic lenses for photography) have an objective lens to produce an image that is much closer, and then an eyepiece (or whatever the equivalent is called in photography) to view that image.

Cameras don’t have an eyepiece lens in the same way that telescopes and microscopes do. In DSLRs, there is a mirror that routes the light to the camera viewfinder. When a picture is taken, the mirror moves out of the way and the light from the lens directly hits the sensor. In mirrorless digital cameras, the viewfinder image is created electronically rather than optically from the sensor.

Most serious camera 'lenses' in fact have multiple elements. By way of example, a Nikon 20-200 lens has the following: 21 elements in 18 groups (including 6 ED lens elements, 2 aspherical elements, 1 fluorite element, 1 SR lens element, elements with Nano Crystal and ARNEO coats, and a fluorine-coated front lens element) [0]

[0] https://store.nikon.co.uk/nikkor-lenses-nikkor-z-lenses/nikk...
why is there no "typing glove?" some kind of device that is attached to your hand that tracks the minute movement of your fingers, and translates them into keystrokes? the amount of physical movement for each keystroke would be dramatically reduced and so it would be faster as well. even without going this far, wouldnt it be much faster to have a keyboard where there is only one button for each finger, and combinations of depressions map to keys? that way you would never have to move your fingers more than is necessary.
Greedy gamblers who assume everyone else is incapable of calling their bluff?
Show HN: Perlin Planets
Couldn't agree more. If the code is going to be maintained by someone less experienced then KISS certainly is more helpful than DRY.
Lots of comments on HTML/CSS being hard or non optimal but learning to use things like grid (grid template areas plus designing first for mobile) and flex together really allow all sorts of layouts one would create.
They already have. They closed their position and got a cash infusion from other investment firms. They will move on and be fine. Meanwhile aside from a handful of savvy players, WSB is going to leave a wake of people losing their nest eggs.
about:config isn't intuitive for users. It should be prominent under the main settings menu under privacy/permissions
Large number of posts here about how people do work when they're not really working that were posted on this social media site during standard working hours.
Most work in the US, at least in my experience, is "at-will" and salaried. At-will means that employees can quit at any time for any reason and employers can fire employees at any time for any reason (except certain things like race, religion, etc). Salaried means you get paid $X per year and the amount you work depends on the company; could be 35h/week, could be 80h/week, but it doesn't change how much you get paid.
See, this is what I mean by clueless. Price and valuation are completely different concepts. An asset that will never generate any cash has a valuation of zero, but its market price could be anything.
Hedge funds loosing their shirts to nerds and soccer moms.
I'm not sure this was contrary to what the parent comment says. Back in April the newspapers and other media were regularly using photographs that made crowds and beaches look much more densly packed than they were.

This was being pointed out by articles like the one you linked to, but that doesn't negate original offense. Far fewer people were reading articles like this than were seing toxic scare-mongering photos on the front pages of major national newspapers.
I think it really depends on the audience. While certain use cases justify optimisation and SSR, for many sites it just doesn't matter that much. If most of the users are on desktop and have fiber/4G, why bother with all of that?
Yeah I was locked into a 3 year contract with money up front. Learned a lot but glad I managed to get out and work my way up to FANG type companies. Just prep well for interviews and leave ASAP.
In a graduate product design class I took, our semester project was to design and build and make cost estimates for development of an IOT product. "Internet of things" wasn't a phrase yet, but that's what you'd call it today. We had to incorporate these ultra low power sensor/processor things the professor had his name on and he was a big promoter of. At the beginning of the semester his grad assistant presented her invention from a previous year, which she won awards for and had presented and written about and was part of her PhD work. It was a home health monitoring device and she showed plots of a month of data from sampling herself (pointing out she was the only woman on her project). It was very inspiring and I was very impressed by her. Jump to mid-semester, I randomly have a team of MBA students and me; the three of them were going to do all of the writing and I just had to do all of the engineering by myself (yay). I'm battling in the lab for hours trying to get the damn thing to read a voltage. I keep putting time of the GA's calendar for help, and she keeps blowing me off or passing me in the hall and saying "ummm maybe try this?" or she'd give me another device to see if the last was defective. In principle, she should have been able to point out whatever I was doing wrong in 15minutes or less, but weeks of this avoidance went on. Eventually, after asking everyone in the department where she was and letting people know I was trying to meet with her and just sitting at her desk at our appointed time for over an hour waiting, she caught me in a hall, conspicuously looked both ways to see that nobody was around, and said "look, the things don't work. They've never worked. My device never worked. I made up the plots based on what they theoretically should have been if the product worked. I'm grading the projects. Just focus about the write-up of the business plan." So my work was done. And at the end of the semester, nobody's product worked, but most people acted like theirs did. Ours obviously didn't work, but we made up some shit about it being a mock-up because we didn't have the budget for some of the components. ... A professional photographer took shots of my team that were used in promotional material for the school.
The Power (Relations) of Citizen Science (2019)
Any advice on reasonable alternatives these days?
As far as I know, it's not a hard dependency. I believe if you just build from the autoconf download after deleting the tclsqlite.c file it works fine.
Yes? So "yay" for small victories.

Mea culpas are more convincing when there's some kind of contrition. An intellectually honest person would at least nod towards having a change of heart, updated opinions.

Shoutouts to Liberal (neoliberal?) economists like Ruchir Sharma is progress. Of course, I hope Friedman ventures outside of the Mises vs Keynes food fight. I find Raj Chetty and David Graeber interesting, for instance.

Edit:

Oops. Looks like a "contrarian" economist Sharma is something like a deficit hawk. I regret my suspension of disbelief.

The Rescues Ruin Capitalism [2020/06/24] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rescues-ruining-capitalism-...
One thing intel does have going for it is by and large excellent linux support for systems built on their hardware. While I haven't worked with the server side AMD gear, the state of AMD laptops and linux leaves a lot to be desired.

What? I have a Thinkpad T14 AMD and even though it has only been on the market for a few months, it's Linux support is excellent. Everything, including the GPU, works perfectly fine.
Somewhere a middle American game stop manager is exiting a position acquired over decades, for a small profit but enough to make him smile.

Wallstreet is the outer rim of hell.
not to pile on here, but what is happening is money is getting transferred from one gambler to another
The "news" aspect is probably the most harmless part about social media.
Thanks, I'll correct this in the article. Appreciate it!
Every attempt at stopping E2EE just shows how much we need E2EE.
Well the technologies behind containers can used independent of containers. For example with mount namespace you can modify filesystem layout, mem cgroups for memory limits and so on. There are 3 issues of these:
1) Several operation are root only or need user namespaces which has its own problems.
2)almost all of these operations are inherented by processor in similar manner as user of the process effectively making a need for some kind of sudo or polkit style solution.
3) some protocols and storage systems are implemented in userspace and are hard to sandbox making a need for proxy. Examples are Xorg, dbus, DNS, dconf.
So proxy and policy management is kinda an issue.
Sure you can make things look crowded with a telephoto lens but that first picture is Takeshita Street in Harajuku and it IS crowded.

I haven't been down there in a while but here's October 31st 2020. If I'd had known it was going to be that crowded I wouldn't have gone. Was just out for a walk.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/LKZKbsqTKxU4SN4y5

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a similar level of crowded this Sunday though I don't plan to walk over to find out.
It's called "parenting" which is not in vogue right now. Currently, people treat children like adults, expecting them to navigate the world as an adult would, and that's dumb.

Reject a failed society. It's okay to be an individual, you don't need to be part of the collective.
Well any reasonable GameStop valuation is at least an order of magnitude below current market price.